Monthly Archive for August, 2007

Feedwordpress

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on August 23, 2007
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As you may be able to see I have just installed feedwordpress. It allows you to

  • Read your favorite RSS feeds in Google Reader. (just like you might do now)
  • If you find something of interest you mark it as stared or shared
  • Google makes your stared items into another RSS feed
  • Another blog would pick that article up and automatically make it in to a blog article that you could then go and edit or comment on.

I want to use this as the basis for a collaborative discussion board at work. I am using my blog as a demo for the people at work to see how it might work.

There are a couple of improvements to make.

  1. A missing space in the resulting title of the blog article
  2. A link at the end of the blog article back to the original

Revo Pico Wi-Fi

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on August 21, 2007
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I just got a Revo Pico Wi-Fi.

It is an FM and internet radio and will also play music from a windows file share and a UPnP server. It is portable, has a single built in speaker and rechargeable battery. As an internet radio it is fantastic, with instant access to over 6000 stations it easier to setup and use than my Roku Soundbridge. Unfortunately, it will not talk to my firefly music server but hopefully they are adding UPnP support to firefly soon.

libpcap on OSX

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on August 19, 2007
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The other day I was playing with libpcap on my MacBook Pro. Every time I tried to run the code my wireless network connection was disconnected.

After a bit of playing around I also found this was happening with tcpdump. It appears that running tcpdump -i en1 where en1 is the wireless network interface works fine. I guess the problem is something to do with the call to scan for interfaces.